SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Domestic Violence, Alcoholism
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Traditional nuclear family (mom, dad, one girl, one boy) normal family. Modern or contemporary family: family is based on kinship (blood) Anthropological and historical studies show that the traditional nuclear families are not natural or universal in form. The family form of any historical period is directly related to the dominant economic and cultural beliefs of the time. Men wages are coming down: stay at home dads and working moms. These are self-reported studies: common but flaw is that respondents tend to overestimate. Trend: age of marriage is going up 30 years old, before it was low 20s, no one is committed to family, no one is committed to marriage, lower divorce rates. 21: share control, between parents and children, rules, personal control, kid still wants complete control, parental control, same thing for parents. 31% the political battle over family value is a battle over a set of economic and cultural relationships that establish relations of: gender, sexuality,
